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Explaining U.S. immigration, 1971-98

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  • Clark, Ximena
  • Hatton, Timothy J.
  • Williamson, Jeffrey G.

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The authors develop and estimate a model explaining the level and country-source composition of United States immigration since the early 1970s. The model incorporates ratios of source country income, education, and demographic structure, as well as relative inequality. The authors'model also incorporates both network effects, as reflected in the stock of previous immigrants, and various controls for immigration quota policy. The model is estimated on a panel of 81 source countries for 1971-98. The results strongly support the influence of economic, demographic, and geographic variables as well as policy. The regression results are used to identify those factors that most influenced the changing composition of U.S. immigration by source.

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Paper provided by The World Bank in its series Policy Research Working Paper Series with number 3252.

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Date of creation: 01 Mar 2004
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Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:3252

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Keywords: Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Public Health Promotion; Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement; Human Migrations&Resettlements; Gender and Social Development; Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement; Human Migrations&Resettlements; Gender and Social Development; Economic Theory&Research;

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  1. Antecol, Heather & Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. & Trejo, Stephen, 2001. "Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States," IZA Discussion Papers 363, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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  1. Kato, Takao & Sparber, Chad, 2011. "Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad," Working Papers 2011-02, Department of Economics, Colgate University.
  2. Simone Bertoli & Jesus Fernandez-Huertas Moraga & Francesc Ortega, 2010. "Crossing the Border: Self-selection, Earnings and Individual Migration Decisions," CReAM Discussion Paper Series 1011, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London.
  3. Bertoli, Simone & Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús, 2011. "Multilateral Resistance to Migration," IZA Discussion Papers 5958, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

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